Living only for today — for pleasure. A killer who gets what he wants — including death.
Awards: 21 wins & 6 nominations.
Production: Shochiku Films Ltd.
Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the lam.
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura turns this fact-based story—about the seventy-eight-day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic family—into a cold, perverse, and at times diabolically funny examination of the primitive coexisting with the modern. More than just a true-crime tale, Vengeance Is Mine bares humanity’s snarling id.
